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USN-3297-1: jbig2dec vulnerabilities

24 May 2017

Several security issues were fixed in jbig2dec.

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Bingchang Liu discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when
decoding malformed image files. If a user or automated system were tricked
into processing a specially crafted JBIG2 image file, a remote attacker
could cause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04
LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. (CVE-2016-9601)

It was discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when decoding
malformed image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a specially crafted JBIG2 image file, a remote attacker could
cause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2017-7885)

Jiaqi Peng discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when
decoding malformed image files. If a user or automated system were tricked
into processing a specially crafted JBIG2 image file, a remote attacker
could cause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7975)

Dai Ge discovered that jbig2dec incorrectly handled memory when decoding
malformed image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a specially crafted JBIG2 image file, a remote attacker could
cause jbig2dec to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
disclose sensitive information. (CVE-2017-7976)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.04
Ubuntu 16.10
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.